In GamesBeat’s coverage of Miyamoto and Company’s Q&A session for Super Mario 3D World, the new game’s unique clear pipes came up as a topic of conversation, at which point the title’s director Kenta Motokura revealed that the pipes were made possible by the Wii U’s ability to process HD graphics. He remarked that the see-through properties of the pipes is much easier to achieve in Wii U, and that the technique allowed the developers to do something they’ve never done before with the series.

In addition to the details on 3D World’s clear pipes, Miyamoto addressed the difference between 3D and 2D Mario games, indicating that 3D World is an amalgamation of the two. He then commented that a new Mario title in the vain of the Galaxy franchise may very well be a reality at some point in the future. Here is Mr. Motokura’s full quote from the Super Mario 3D World session:

“Now that we’re able to have graphics in HD, this is allowing us to express some different ideas that we really haven’t done before. So for example, the clear pipe is something that’s just that much easier to see in this kind of presentation, and this allowed us to connect it to new ideas for gameplay.

“We had a lot of fun thinking about what happens exactly inside the pipe if you could see through it. What sort of things are able to go through? And so we worked on, ‘OK, maybe fireballs can go through. Maybe even Goombas could go through.’ We spent a lot of time coming up with different variations.”

That is the biggest load of bull I’ve heard all day. Firstly it’s a categorization error…the definition of graphics i.e. pixel density would have no bearing whatsoever on the ability to show transparent objects, that would be to do with shaders, rendering and tracing engines. Secondly…games, films, design software, have all had the ability to process transparency in objects for years! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hating on this game, I can’t wait for it and the clear pipes do look lovely but I simply refuse to believe that the Wii U’s power has anything to do with them

Lol ik its trivial but what if they are right tho? I know it could have been done on the Wii but im just saying with a slight doubt could this be true? Think about it, none of us have worked for games with Ead or on the Wii so… they might be right but I doubt it

ya gotta keep an open mind to this stuff and ive been rather close minded lately because of lost world

xbox has the best online and playstation has more veriety than nintendo, even if a select few are movie games. nintendo used to have more but you know, mario zelda, smash mario kart retro. same old every gen since wii oh and shovelware. now clear pipes are more innovative than what they do or have on their systems………. no your just a nintensheep your about as desperate as nintendo in this article.

no thats the kinect that spies. the xbox one deserves to fail, i want it to. people are forgetting what microsoft is doing!! oh look microsoft reversed everything!!! no you stupid mindless sheep, their STILL SPYING ON YOU!!!!! deeerrr freaking nerds wake up!!!! no system is worth that!!

wii u may suck but if microsoft and their no good self just stop making consoles, maybe nintendo can return to what they were. nintendo may be dumb but microsoft themself as a corporation is shit in whole.

that would be good, people will say that its bad for the industry. no they are bad for the industry, have been since 360, red ring. about freaking half of their sales were from people who re bought 360’s, stupid sheep and now they spy on you with a shitty gimmicky kinect, and you have to pay for it too.

then all rare franchises can come back to nintendo, new banjo conker, donkey knog racing, and more. that would be awesome, microsioft is all shit. the have their controller, which is the best controller ever made and they have the best 3rd party version of games because every game has been made on 360, then they port to ps3.

if nintendo could just run things like sony and just stop being so dumb, they really could easily be no match.

thats all good in all but hahahahahah!!!!! your such a dimwited fanboy you dont think this is complete bull coming from nintendo!!! troll troll troll you fanboys would buy shit off of myomotos ass and think its innovative….. or is that because of the hd graphics!!! yeah doesnt make any sense, either is saying hd graphics were the reason clear pipes are possible!!

you only read the title didunt you? learn how to reed man if you read quote say pipes can be presented better and you can clearly take notice of transperency thank to high defintion!! thats more like saying trees look moar real becus of hd….see?

LOL exactly if they focused more on real innovation (and way better marketing) they can bring the Wii U back to life but that’s not going to be the case since they think super Mario 3D land HD (3D world) is going to save it this holiday #idiots
#LOLNINTENDO

oh boy another classic case of hatersheep just hating cus evryone else. do you even know wat the hell you talkin bout? do you even kno what innovation is? hd is a innovation for a nintendo console
#idiot exposed

both ya dumbasses dont even know wat innovation means wat you call gimmicks can be consider innovation. hd is innovation why? cus it hasng been dun before on nintendo before and they are improving. even something you pick up from trash and find new use for is consider innovation. #idiots #self importance

innovation is not wat you want to be i outta slap you n youre teacher with my dicktionary if it hasnt already been done by your mother

Well they made have needed more pixel shaders to render it. If Wii didn’t have that kind of power at hand, then that renders your argument pointless. The Wii U GPGPU is based on a AMD Evegreen 5870 chip – which has got a lot of power to show.

“I have an idea.”
“Let’s hear it.” Everyone around the table looks at the speaker.
“Two words: clear…pipes…Let that sink in for a minute.”
*One minute later*
“IMPOSSIBRU—”
“ARE YOU MAD—”
“WE DON’T HAVE THE PROCESSING POWER FOR—wait…YES, WE DO!”

yeah they are up to some shit. us is turning worse by the day and the people have no power….. i guess our meaning of winning our independence was nothing. people are the government, not government controlling everything.

I don’t know with the heck the US is still considered 1st world power when the US has to buy their own soul to pay all the money that they owe to China. The US is more worried about spying others’ underwear (and yes Microsoft is not a saint here) rather than improving their economy and re balancing their own political shit.

Nintendo is my favorite entertainment company. I’m disappointed because I know they are better than this.

The WiiU could have called back Gamers to Nintendo. I think the game pad is amazing. But they:
1.) Called it “Wii” U
2.) Skimped on power. (although I do like the fact it runs cool all the time, so it will never overheat)
3.) …and this is important.. They weren’t fucking trained and prepared to develop in HD.

when 3ds get hd it will be innovative and you cant appreciate luigi mansion pipes why? cus theyre not 1080p the guy is saying is now you can apreciate it better cus its 1080p is that to hard too understand?
#facepalm
#irony
#sheep are idiots but not me

well no….. english my 10th or 11th language. i speak and study many language. i just hate how if you defend nintendo AT ALL your automaticly dubbed a sheep or a tool or a drone or a you name it its a broken record

hd is innovative for nintendo weather peple want to admit or not cus its theyre 1st time doing it geezuz man how is that being a drone if its true?

all the guy wad saying is that hd helps you notice it even more like if he was too say leaf in pikmin look real because now in hd is also innovative

They could use the Wii U for so much more, yet all we get is a Mario game that seems to push no boundaries, stylistically look exactly the same, and could have been easily done on the Wii (or Gamecube).

Why would Nintendo try to compete? They lost the N64 and Gamecube Era in sales? I mean honestly the gamecube is the most under-rated console along with the Dreamcast

Why would you have such a JUMP in power when you are un-familiar with the jump in the first place. Ignoring that would be stupid and a bad decision, you have to ease into things, focusing on the past has no point to it

Also they aren’t trying to make a console as strong as the ps3 WHICH HASN’T BEEN USED TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL, there is so much power hidden away in that console’s crazy cell architecture that for all we know, it could be on par with the Nex generation

Ignoring that Wii U appears to be losing. Only differences is N64 and GameCube were stronger in their gen than Wii U will be. So like I said Nintendo was stupid for not thinking of OS4 during the process of Wii U back in 08′ Should Toyota make a 2014 Camry a little bit more powerful than a 2013 Accord and knowing the 2014 Accord will be more powerful than the 2013 model. That’s stupid.

No actually, the Saturn and Xbox were the strongest of that generation so… your wrong about that. Well by your opinion, just competing is enough for you, why should you make a super expensive console to release at a high price when the competition can do what you want to do for long than you can. Wii U has the power and no game has even used the Wii U to half its power and half power lets games use PC textures, so instead of getting the full power from the get go like the PS4 and Xbone, you gotta work to get the power

Its sad that you advise us to compare Wii Mario game to Wii U. Yet you wouldn’t need a comparison from Mario 64 and Sunshine. If Dumbtendo focused on the PS4 then a video comparison would not be necessary. After all find me a video of SSB and SSBM.